Laurene Powell Jobs

Ms. Powell Jobs has $20 billion from the stakes in Apple and Disney that she inherited from her deceased husband, Steve Jobs.She has been putting her fortune to work through Emerson Collective, the for-profit social impact firm she founded in 2004. Her focus is on education, immigration and the environment with investments in Make School, a coding school an electric scooter startup. She launched the Emerson Collective Foundation during the second half of 2016 with a gift of $1.2 billion, much of it in Disney shares.In 2017 she took a majority stake in Atlantic Magazine and has gone on to invest in nonprofit publications from Mother Jones to ProPublica.